to be mildly irritated with "pooh" meaning "poo"?

[Just5minswithDacre]

Is it intended to be genteel?

Poor Winnie is being tainted

Blanche

People think pooh is the same as poo?

Numpties

And what epic thread? Was it enjoyably epic, or cringingly, or frustratingly? Be specific

Cider I can't find it now, but I'm on the app (RUBBISH for finding things) , so that doesn't mean it's been deleted.

It was gross smegs. A live TMI poo situation. I didn't hang about.

YANBU. It's poo. Not bloody 'pooh'.

I find 'pooh' meaning 'poo' a bit twee. I get how it's annoying.

Pooh bear's misspellings never annoyed me, but grown adults spelling 'honey' as 'hunni' GRINDS MY FUCKING GEARS.

[breathe]

Oh. Gross epic. My least favourite epic.

Twee. Exactly.

YANBU? It's Poo.

And the epic thread is in the general health topic.

Just found the epic thread. All resolved. And she called her poo Matt as she has known some who were shits. I won't tell DS!

Yanbu. Pooh is a daft word!

I use pooh when something is smelly, so opening DD's sports bag, recoiling from the smell and saying "Pooh, that stinks".
Has anyone ever sniffed a much-loved cuddly toy? I bet Winnie whiffed to high heaven...

I know I've posted on this before but I really believe it is a generational thing. I'm nearly 50 and I'd never seen the use of the spelling 'poo' until I started frequenting messaging boards about 12 years ago. Honestly, honestly, when I was a child the spelling was 'pooh'.

My Collins Dictionary from 1991 (so 25 years ago) doesn't even list 'poo' as a word at at all, not even as a variant of 'pooh'. The definition they give of 'pooh' is '1) an exclamation of disdain, contempt or disgust 2) a childish word for faeces or defecate'.

It's seems highly likely that the use of 'pooh' for faeces came from the expression of disgust. I don't know whether the prevalaence of the 'poo' spelling has been hastened by the US use of 'poop' (which, again, in my childhood was used in the expression 'to be pooped' meaning to be compeletely exhausted) or by the popularity of Winnie-the-Pooh meaning people wish to define it as a different word.

That's why when I see 'poo' it looks like a child's misspelling of a word I learned to spell 45 years ago. Interestingly, my partner who is my age but grew up in Devon says that he understood there were two spellings when he was a child: 'pooh' for human faeces and 'poo' for animal faeces.

In the 1940s and 50s, bowel movements were not called poo. I remember us using the word "biz" which was regarded as a bit more polite than "shit"! But people did say "Pooh!" if there was a bad smell.....

Pooh doesn't mean poo.

Stupid woman with low iq and low life aspirations who like to dress their girls in 100% pink, like to pretend it does. #massivegeneralisation

disappoint15 I suspect you are right.

Did you even read my post, whois? It's hard for me to unlearn something I learned as a child. 'Pooh' is the original form of 'poo'. Spellings change and this one has so I will have to get used to it. But every time I see it spelled 'poo' it's like rubbing my fingers over sandpaper.

I agree with everything Disappoint says - and (possibly not coincidentally) am a similar age.

I Sam with disappoint with the spelling ' poo'.

With 'hunny', Winnie the Pooh is a bear of very little brain and cannot do spelling. So he goes to his friend Owl who is wise and clever and -thinks he- knows how to spell things. Hence the nameplate on his door, 'Wol'.

Wow disappoint. You've completely messed with my sense of spelling history now